W Quotes
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“Whence should proceed that cry of love, if not from the heights of sacrifice?”
Source: Les Misérables
“Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.”
Source: Meditations on First Philosophy
“Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works
“Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.”
Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
“Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.”
“Whenceforth, nothing inccurs suddenly or transpires just out of the blue. There is a process in everything that happens in this world and beyond. Subsequently everything happens specifically for its known or unknown reasons”
“Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?”
Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes
“Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U- Niversity of Gottingen.”
“Wheneve someone asks me, "Did you find everything alright?" I wonder to myself, "Is this a trick question?"
Maybe there is something that is not all right, and if I mention it first I get some exotic prizes!!”
“Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.”
“Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.”
“Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.”
“Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!”
“Whenever a church does anything for its own group, it has that right.”
“Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.”
“Whenever a college athletic program got itself in trouble with the law - big trouble - the NCAA usually steered clear, sticking to how many minutes a week student-athletes are allowed to stretch, the distance they can travel in a car with an alumnus, and whether they are allowed to put cream cheese or jam on their free breakfast bagel. (They are not).”
Source: Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football
“Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.”
“Whenever a decision is made in the heat of the moment—when we allow ourselves to be carried on joy or sorrow or mere simplicity and quiet—whatever it is, a moment of magic is created. Not always good magic, of course. But magic, nonetheless.”
Source: October
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
“Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.”
“Whenever a few people are gathered with a spiritual impulse to connect, to resonate through the heart, to make a shift from their own ego to their essence, and then to connect to do whatever work in the world they are called to do, that's an evolutionary circle.”
“Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.”
“Whenever a friend succeeds, something in me dies.”
Source: The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs
“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”
“Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.”
“Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and desires, but has to develop first a marked attitude of compassion. He should commit himself firmly to the willingness to take the effort to save every living creature.”
“Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”
Source: The Emotional Life of Nations
“Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade.”
“Whenever a horse has learned a new movement or a new aid in its basic form, the rider should give him a break and deliberately ride something else for a few days or weeks. When he returns to the movement, he will notice how much more easily the training will proceed.”
“Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience.”
“Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“Whenever a journalist says to me, "Oh, you don't understand, I'm impartial, I'm objective," I know what he's saying. I can decode it immediately. It means he channels the official truth. Almost always. That protestation means he speaks for a consensual view of the establishment. This is internalized.”
“Whenever a journalist wrote an article about him that was critical in nature... he would invite them to a meal and at first they assumed they were in trouble for being critical of him. But they soon learned after arrival at his house for a meal that he merely wanted to engage with them to get an understanding of they criticism... Madiba didn't attempt to change their minds. He would have an informed opinion after having engaged with them, and even though he occasionally changed an opinion by offering correct information, they never parted feeling hostile.”
“Whenever a liberal begins a peevish complaint with a throat-clearing equivocation like, "Of course, we all agree," your antennae should go up. This is how liberals couch statements they assume all Americans would demand they make, but which they secretly chafe at.”
“Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.”
“Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the modesty born of the imperfections of human nature; he has the arrogance of theological certainty and the tyranny born of ignorant assurance. Believing himself to be the slave of God, he imitates his master, and of all tyrants the worst is a slave in power.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.”
Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
“Whenever a man cowers,
he loses his inner peace, diminishes himself before himself,
and makes the oppressor gigantic.”
“Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.”
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.”
Source: The American Mercury
“Whenever a man enters the realm of prostitutes he's always regarded as a possible customer. If you enter as a woman, you're regarded as somebody who could be in the same place. Being a man brings the perspective of flirtation.”
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.”
Source: Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States